Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 20:10 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >One reason may be cause I'm on a fully udev system now. > > > > > > > > That doesn't matter, if you have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes in > /etc/conf.d/rc. What this does is cause the system to archive all of > the device

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-15 Thread Richard Fish
Ow Mun Heng wrote: >One reason may be cause I'm on a fully udev system now. > > > That doesn't matter, if you have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes in /etc/conf.d/rc. What this does is cause the system to archive all of the device nodes that exist in /dev on shutdown, and restore those on startup. So, i

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 08:00 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > > >CONFIG_KMOD=y > > > > > > grep -i config_kmod /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_KMOD=y > Yep, you need that, and also an appropriate alias entry in > /etc/modules.d/*. Something like 'alias block-major-7 loop' should

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Rumen Yotov wrote: >A strange thing though, yesterday emerged 'new' util-linux-2.12q-r1 >(~x86) and saw that it fetched some version of loop-aes, file: >loop-AES-v3.0c.tar.bz2. Haven't looked at the ebuild. > > If you have USE=crypt, the new ebuild applies the appropriate loop-AES patches for y

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Zac Medico wrote: >CONFIG_KMOD=y > > > Yep, you need that, and also an appropriate alias entry in /etc/modules.d/*. Something like 'alias block-major-7 loop' should do it. Also the loop devices /dev/loop[0-9], /dev/loop/0 need to exist permanently. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:24 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > >>The first time I want to mount a loopback device (like an iso) after a >>reboot I need to modprobe loop - it works consistently after that. >> >>I am sure that I never used to have to do that modprobe, the module was >>l

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
Nick Rout wrote: >The first time I want to mount a loopback device (like an iso) after a >reboot I need to modprobe loop - it works consistently after that. > >I am sure that I never used to have to do that modprobe, the module was loaded >either on boot or automagically when needed. I am unsure

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:24 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > The first time I want to mount a loopback device (like an iso) after a > reboot I need to modprobe loop - it works consistently after that. > > I am sure that I never used to have to do that modprobe, the module was > loaded either on boot or

[gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Nick Rout
The first time I want to mount a loopback device (like an iso) after a reboot I need to modprobe loop - it works consistently after that. I am sure that I never used to have to do that modprobe, the module was loaded either on boot or automagically when needed. I am unsure when it changed, but pr